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From: "Andrew Cottrell" <acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au>
To: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Windows 2000 /dev/null permission query
Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 23:16:10 +1000
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All,

One step at a time. This time I have come up against issues with /dev/null
permissions. It's getting late so I thought I would ask and start
testing/debugging/building again in the morning.  Any ideas on where to
start?

My thoughts are:
    a) Could be a bash issue.
    b) Search the mail archives to see where /dev/nul support was added and
start searching from there.

As usual this works okay on Win98!

DJGPP_204 D:\dj204\gnu\grep-2.4>djgpp\config
Configuring GNU Grep for DJGPP v2.x...
Updating configuration scripts...
Running the ./configure script...
loading site script ./djgpp/config.site
creating cache ./config.cache
./configure: /dev/null: Permission denied (EACCES)
checking for a BSD compatible install... \c
/dev/env/DJDIR/bin/ginstall -c
checking whether build environment is sane... \c
./configure: /dev/null: Permission denied (EACCES)
yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... \c
./configure: /dev/null: Permission denied (EACCES)
no
checking for working aclocal... \c
./configure: /dev/null: Permission denied (EACCES)
missing
checking for working autoconf... \c
./configure: /dev/null: Permission denied (EACCES)
missing
checking for working automake... \c
./configure: /dev/null: Permission denied (EACCES)
missing
checking for working autoheader... \c
./configure: /dev/null: Permission denied (EACCES)
missing
checking for working makeinfo... \c
./configure: /dev/null: Permission denied (EACCES)
missing
./configure: /dev/null: Permission denied (EACCES)
configure: error: can not run ./config.sub
./configure script exited abnormally!

DJGPP_204 D:\dj204\gnu\grep-2.4>


Windows 2000 package building on Windows 2000 box progress so far is:
1)    Package: DJGPP CVS tarball of 29-Jul-2001 with crt0 patch from today
       Built: Yes
       Testing: using to build subsequent
       Comments: Win2K leaks DPMI selectors more than  Win98
2)    Package: make 3.791
       Built: Yes
       Testing: using to build subsequent (after adding buffer to protect
init_init cwd pointer)
       Comments: no problems
3)    Package: bash 2.0.5 sources downloaded on 23-July-2001
       Built: Yes
       Testing: using to build subsequent (after adding buffer to protect
init_init cwd pointer)
       Comments: need to add extra buffer for path_overrun issue

Andrew